Music pauses on my speaker when I receive a notification from my laptop

[knesto]

Plan

Premium

Country

Device

Realme

Operating System

Android and Windows 10

My Question or Issue

I have a speaker to which 2 devices are connected. One is Android phone and the other is my laptop. When I play music from my Android phone on my speaker and I receive a notification on my laptop, music pauses. Is there a way for the music to not be paused after receiving a notification on my laptop?

[Yordan]

Hey @knesto!

Could you let us know if the music is fully paused when you receive a notification, or does it just pause for a second and then resumes? 

This may be occurring because both your phone and your laptop share the same sound output device. Currently, when you receive a notification on your phone, the Spotify pauses for a sec so that the notification sound plays instead. It's possible that the app detects the notification from your laptop, because both are connected to the same speaker. As a workaround you can connect 1 device at a time - you shouldn't experience any issues then.

Feel free to test with only your phone connected to the speaker to see if the notification pauses Spotify then.

Cheers!

[johncramer02]

Yes if both phone and computer are connected to the same speaker (for me it was via Bluetooth) this happens, I unpaired one, and this fixed my issue, thank you.